Methodology category: 1297 books
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over...
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation...
Advancing Digital Humanities
Research, Methods, Theories
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally.
Dialectical Phenomenolgy (Routledge Revivals)
Marx's Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
In this inquiry into Marx’s method of theorising, originally published in 1979, Roslyn Bologh analyses theory in the same way that Marx analyses the production of capital, and provides a set of rules for reproducing Marx’s method. The rules are developed through an examination of the Grundrisse,...
Marx and Wittgenstein
Social Praxis and Social Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Brahmin Prophet
Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
The Reverend Phillips Brooks, author of the beloved Christmas Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem, was undeniably one of the most popular preachers of Gilded Age America. However, very few critical studies of his life and work exist. In this insightful book, Gillis J. Harp places Brooks's religious...
Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research
Tensions and Positionings
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, positionalities...
by T.D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
A collection of chapters on key theories employed in research into information behaviour, i.e., how people interact with information. The chapters are written by known researchers who have employed the theories in their work.
There are eight chapters, covering activity theory, critical theory,...
Sustainable Knowledge
A Theory of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice. Divided into four parts, this authoritative handbook contains over forty chapters on the state of the art...
Applying Relational Sociology
Relations, Networks, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Are we living in a post-colonial world? A colonial one? An anti-colonial one? Lifting the veil from language and politics, Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore and untangle these concepts as they relate to education. The anti-colonial prism...
Participant Observation
A Guide for Fieldworkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use...
Achieving Social Impact
Sociology in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research. Analyzing the impact...